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Elk Grove pilot wants backyard helicopter pad

Published On: Mar 07 2013 06:08:58 AM PST

SAN JOSE, Calif. -

The Elk Grove Planning Commission will decide whether to allow the owner of a helicopter charter company to fly in and out of his backyard.

John Hamilton, who runs Sacramento Executive Helicopters, had commuted back and forth to his two-acre spread via chopper until neighbors complained about the noise and city officials ordered him to stop in 2011.

The Sacramento Bee says the planning commission will meet Thursday night to decide whether Hamilton can again land helicopters on the grassy swath out behind the pool on his rural property.

Not all of his neighbors oppose the plan. Fourteen of them have signed a petition Hamilton submitted along with his request to the commission.

Hamilton recently applied for permission from Caltrans to build a helipad in his yard.

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